Quotes About Empathy

I'm not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I'll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they'd hurt you—

Fei, you know you can trust me. I'm here for you. I always have been and always will be. Tell me what's wrong. You can't keep rescuing me, I say. Of course not, he agrees. You can rescue yourself—but perhaps I can give you a hand now and then. I smile faintly, but there is an ache in my chest as I think back to that longago day, trapped in the rubble when a beautiful, glittering boy held out his hand to pull me out.

I wanted him to leave here one step closer to being the man I knew he could be. I wanted him to have one less nightmare.

Richelle Mead

Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures,and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.

No. Yeva hasn't been very forthcoming this morning.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Use your ears more than your mouth.

Listening says, "I value your opinion, I care about our relationship, and you matter to me." The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.

Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less

If you really desire to be used by God, you must understand a powerful truth: The very experiences that you have resented or regretted most in life — the ones you've wanted to hide and forget — are the experiences God wants to use to help others. They are your ministry!

Real fellowship happens when people get honest about who they are and what is happening in their lives.

God determines greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Vulnerability is an endearing quality; we are naturally drawn to humble people.

The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.

love is the only thing that can change the unchangeable.

Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.